| Pingo Announces New Convenience Features for Consumers and Small Businesses, Making Low-Cost International Calling ...
Pingo®, the online calling service from iBasis (NASDAQ: IBAS), today announced new convenient features making it easier than ever for consumers and small business users to take advantage of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for low-cost international calling. Pingo now has an interactive voice response system that alerts consumers when their account has a low balance, replenishable with the simple push of the * key. For consumers and business users, Pingo has also introduced enhanced speed-dialing capabilities, enabling users to easily and quickly connect to domestic or international calling destinations. iBasis Introduces Auto Recharge Via Phone And Enhanced Speed Dialing To Its Popular Pingo Online Calling Service Burlington, MA (PRWEB) November 26, 2007 -- Pingo®, the online calling service from iBasis (NASDAQ: IBAS), today announced it has added new convenience features making it easier than ever for consumers and small business users to take advantage of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for low-cost international calling.
Business programs focus on low-income Vermonters
Vermonters who own few valuable assets face a host of challenges when they dream of owning their own business.
Others might take for granted the need for marketing, financing and creating a business plan, but many low-income residents require help with basic steps and with deciding the direction to turn when obstacles seem overpowering.
�Unique challenges are encountered by low-income people � credit issues, fewer assets, fewer options for borrowing and literacy issues, traditional, financial and technology-related,� said Jim White, program director of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity�s Micro Business Development Program. �We spend a lot of time helping them to put their ideas on paper.�
Program guidelines mandate the program work only with people whose income doesn�t exceed 70 percent of the U.S.
Nerve revival gives amputees sensation
WASHINGTON: Amputees could "feel" their lost arms and hands after scientists reconnected the nerves to their chests in an experiment that holds promise for providing sensation in artificial limbs, according to a report released yesterday. In two patients who had lost arms, scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University rerouted to their chests the key nerves that had transferred sensation from hand to brain. After several months during which the nerves re-established themselves in the chest muscles, physical pressure, heat and cold, and electrical stimulus were applied to the areas of the nerves and the patients said they could feel their missing arms and hands. In some of the testing, the patients could even specify which area on the hand they could feel.
Startup Bank Predicts New Traditions In East Pasco
A new bank started with $20 million from local investors and business people will open its doors Dec. 10. Florida Traditions Bank expects to lend to small-business owners, farmers and ranchers, said Bud Stalnaker, president of the new venture. The bank also wants to cater to those customers' personal financial needs, including checking accounts, and auto and home-equity loans. Its target market is east Pasco County and Spring Hill. Stalnaker, a career banker, said some customers want a bank with locally based staff and executives. "They can walk in here and talk to the president," he said. "They can't do that in a lot of places, and we'll come to their businesses and open their accounts for them if they can't get here." Florida Traditions is opening in the former Wachovia bank at 14033 Eighth St.
Small firms' workers need frequent performance reviews
Giving employees annual performance reviews or appraisals can be one of a small-business owner's most dreaded tasks. Doing them more often and going into the process with a positive rather than punitive attitude can make a review much less of an ordeal. Perhaps the first thing to know about employee reviews or appraisals is that they shouldn't be once-a-year events. You should be giving your staff feedback -- positive and negative -- on an ongoing basis. Some companies have sit-down sessions with workers two, three or even four times a year. It's worthwhile, they find whether an employee is doing well or struggling. By giving more frequent reviews, "you focus on identifying problems before they get too big and mapping out ways to correct the behavior," said Julie Lenzer Kirk of Damascus, Md., who owned a software and consulting company for 10 years.
Going Global, Staying Local
Globalization is a word that is on everyone's lips these days, from politicians to businessmen. After all, this is the force responsible for unprecedented prosperity and growing economic integration at the global level. Nicholas Goh, Managing Director of Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd, a leading provider of Translation and Localization services, provides a tip sheet on how businesses can achieve increased streams of revenue by going global and at the same time, maintaining deep roots locally. .
Technesis Announces Office Print Assessment Software
Technesis is proud to introduce Technesis Print Assessments, part of the Technesis Print Control System. The software is setup and managed from one location, and deployed globally. Technesis software passively records printing from network print servers, remote network printers, along with LPT1, COM and USB printers. Print statistics are collected, summarized and automatically distributed via Technesis' reporting engine. .
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